WHAT HAPPENED ON 19. JANUARY
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Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia wins the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenval will end unsuccessfully the following day. (19. January 1871)

The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey. (19. January 1883)

Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder receives its premiere performance in Berlin. (19. January 1893)

Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed. (19. January 1899)

Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising. (19. January 1915)

World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing more than 20, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target. (19. January 1915)

Silvertown explosion: 73 are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London. (19. January 1917)

The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations. (19. January 1920)

Coopers Inc. sells the world's first briefs. (19. January 1935)

Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles, California to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds. (19. January 1937)

World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma (19. January 1942)

World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation. (19. January 1945)

General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals. (19. January 1946)

Cuba recognizes Israel. (19. January 1949)

71.7% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth. (19. January 1953)

Japan and the United States sign the US-Japan Mutual Security Treaty (19. January 1960)

Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire 3 days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turned into another major protest. (19. January 1969)

China gain control over all the Paracel Islands after a military engagement between the naval forces of the People's Republic of China and Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) (19. January 1974)

An earthquake strikes Himachal Pradesh, India (19. January 1975)

President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose"). (19. January 1977)